Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 13 Issue 1

Implementation of total productive maintenance in food industry: a case study

Panagiotis Tsarouhas

The purpose of this paper is to adopt the total productive maintenance (TPM) in the food industry and especially in bakery products. The paper aims to develop a methodology for…

A process view of maintenance and its stakeholders

Peter Söderholm, Mattias Holmgren, Bengt Klefsjö

The purpose of this paper is to describe maintenance in a generic process model, in order to support an alignment of maintenance with other company internal processes aimed at…

Quality assurance staffing impacts in military aircraft maintenance units

Terry D. Moore, Alan W. Johnson, Michael T. Rehg, Michael J. Hicks

This paper summarizes our research into the impact that current Air Force quality assurance staffing practices have on key unit performance metrics.

Genetic algorithms for total weighted expected tardiness integrated preventive maintenance planning and production scheduling for a single machine

Navadon Sortrakul, C. Richard Cassady

This paper seeks to improve solution procedures for solving a larger version of the integrated preventive maintenance planning and production scheduling model with a total…

Using GenRel for reliability assessment of mining equipment

Nick Vayenas, Greg Yuriy

The purpose of this paper is to formulate, develop and test a reliability assessment model (GenRel) based on genetic algorithms.

Improving the corrective maintenance of an electronic system for trains

E. Viles, D. Puente, M.J. Alvarez, F. Alonso

The purpose of this study is to improve the availability of the trains managed by an electronic communications system. This is an important point because for a train controlled by…

State probabilities of a float system

I.S. Lopes, A.L.F. Leitão, G.A.B. Pereira

The purpose of this paper is to determine the state probabilities for a float system when overhauls are performed periodically.

Emerald at 40

Rebecca Marsh